Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-21
A REPLY.

A REPLY.
EDITOR TIMEs.-''The Champion, Q
July 9Th, containing communication
which, not being signed, throws the re
sponsibility upon the editors for the sen
timent it contains. Extracts from it ar
as follows:
There is a poor woman up on the hi
! whose life and its miserable burdens
| would touch the heart of any one saw
the w. G. T. U. society. We do no
mean up on the hill where sleep thos
that are sleeping the last unbroken slum
Der but Il ,on the hill where the church
es are. where hundreds go to worship
where they CAL upon God to bless tn
widow and the fatheTless, but wher
none of the people who go there nav
heard the story of this desolate woman
or who if having heard it, have turne!
to her the heart of stone. Oh! it is pitt
full indeed, the miserable TO be tod, ina
among this mass of canting, lowing hyp
ocrites not one has sought to ughten LII
burdens of an unhappy sister, not even
kind word, or ask the great God - len
per the winds to the shOrn lamb. 1
those ladies of the w. G. T. u, who are
so active, opposing the issuance of per-
mits to legitimate druggists, and other
wise unsexing themselves, desire any fur
ther information in the matter let them
call upon the poor woman or at the Of
flee of the Champion.
A careful reader of the above will per
ceive that the writer Of the above is far
from being perfection himself in the ca
pacity of an editor. In the expression,
':touch the hearts of anyone we sup
pose he means the heart, not hearts, of
anyone THE hearts of anyone save
the w. C. T. o., the writer evidently
meant the hearts of the members of the
w. c. T. U. Although he positively
states that none are so heartless as the
members of the w. C. T. U. He follows
with almost the same accusations against
the hundreds that attend the churches.
The poor woman he evidently refers to
does not live on the hill where the
churches are, as he termed it. We do
not appear in print to reply to the SLAM
derous and unmerited attack upon the W,
C. T. u, but we feel that such an insin-
uation against the people of Dodge City,
and especially to those who so kindly ad-
ministered to the wants of this poor wo-
man, should not 60 unanswered. The
people of Dodge City have reputation
almost national, for kindness to the sick
and distressed, and to have such an arti-
Gle appear in city paper will cause out
siders to think we are retrograding. Then
again this woman, we learn is a member
of the Catholic church, and no organiza-
ton looks after its needy ones better
than the Catholics. Thus the article in
the Champion, not only wrongs the peo-
pie of Dodge City, but is an indirect at
tack upon the Catholic church.
Now for the facts as we understand
Thorn. More than week before this ar
ticle appeared, the people of the COM
munity he bemeans, contributed cloth
ing, provisions and money to the support
of this poor woman. Her case was also
reported to the proper authorities. AL
though the attending physician forbade
persons going there and ordered the
burned and the child buried
without delay Tin order to prevent the
spread of contagious desease) yet kind
neighbors were there, Notwithstanding
the risk and were ever ready to supply
her needs. Now this case is an illustra-
ton of the need of such work as we are
doing; we have reason to believe that
this woman's pitiable condition is one of
the many effects of the liquor traffic and
its kindred evils. We hope the day is
not far distant when the Champion will
as zealously espouse the cause as it now
denOunces it. w. c. L. Z.
Dodge City, July LIST, 1887.